You know how your parents would misquote lyrics of rocks songs, while singing along to the radio on road trips? Well my Dad did this with other things, too. His version of the famous Robert Burns line was, “The best laid plans aft gang agley.” He left out some words, changed the order of others, […]
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This past Sunday I was invited by Teri Conroy of the TU’s Farmlife blog to attend the monthly meeting of the Golden Fleece Spinners and Weavers Guild. I had a great time and I met lots of wonderful and talented spinners, knitters, and weavers. I even came home with a Guild membership application. This month’s […]
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See the still life above? It was taken in a hotel room in NYC, where my family had to stay while we waited for our power to return, after that freak snowstorm last Saturday. Now we had twelve snowstorms last winter and didn’t lose power with any of them. Saturday’s storm was different because the […]
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From my post on October 6th, the Rambouillet fiber was clearly the readers’ choice for my next spinning project and by Monday the 11th I had the first bobbin completed. I’ve been working on it as much as I can but with other things going on in the last few weeks like houseguests, Rhinebeck, a […]
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